Exposiciones temporales

GIFT: THE HONORABLE MEMORY OF LIDÓ RICO

• 16/11/2023 - 29/04/2024
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The tour of the exhibition turns the viewer into an archaeologist capable of discovering stories from a past where those young princes, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, along with their own grandfather, the Emperor Augustus, take center stage in the work. These images are incorporated into a frieze created by the artist made up of more than 200 pieces inspired by the classical world, revealing the history, memory and art that survive preserved in this space, now offered as a gift by the artist.

The process of making each piece of the frieze is also similar to the way the Romans made funerary masks, where the face of the deceased was reproduced with wax to make it present. On this occasion, Mírian Huéscar points out, the artist uses the same material to make the molds with his own hands, thus seeking the durability of the tool that shapes the creation and develops his artistic discourse.

The exhibition is the first of a series of exhibitions belonging to the project titled “Horados”, which tries to highlight different enclaves of the Sierra Minera of the Region, highlighting the particular idiosyncrasy of each chosen place. In fact, the Greek geographer Strabo says that more than forty thousand slaves worked in the rich mines of Carthago Nova. Without a doubt, many of the Roman families of the city who became rich from mining operations and their marketing throughout the Empire participated in the beautification and construction of public buildings.

So that more than two thousand years later the Yeclano artist, as Charo Guarino points out, establishes a formal and content dialogue with Antiquity, revealing one more link in the long chain that unites us with our classical heritage and that demonstrates that neither in the most avant-garde creation there is nothing new under the sun.

Lidó Rico​ is the creator of his own plastic language that has been characterized by the use of his own body as another work tool. His plastic universe is made up of images evocative of stories, established in a tangential and irreverent way, made with techniques that surpass the conventional, atypical materials that violate the pre-established and break the past of art, venturing into an unknown future.

Graduated in Fine Arts in 1991, the following year he made the exterior sculpture of the pavilion of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia for the Universal Exhibition in Seville. In 2001 he received the Honorable Mention at the VI Drawing Biennial held in Hungary and in 2005 he was selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to represent Spain at the XXIII Biennial of Alexandria, where he was awarded the Grand Prize of said Biennial. From his professional beginnings to the present moment he has held nearly a hundred exhibitions around the world, being present at Fairs and Biennials. His work is found in museums, institutions and public and private collections.

Temporary Exhibition Hall of the Museum of the Roman Theater of Cartagena
Museum of the Roman Theater of Cartagena
Plaza del Ayuntamiento, 9
30201 Cartagena, Murcia (Spain)
Telephone: (+34) 968 504 802
www.teatroromanocartagena.org

Fundación Teatro Romano de Cartagena:
City Hall of Cartagena
Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia
Caja Murcia Foundation

Collaborates
Lidó Rico ICA Foundation for the revitalization of art and culture
Institute of Cultural Industries and the Arts of the Region of Murcia
Iberdrola Foundation